March 10, 2010   24 Adar 5770
Bet Aviv, Columbia, MD
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Bet Aviv is an affordable, adult-oriented congregation affiliated with the Union for Reform Judaism. We are an inclusive and caring community that strives to meet the diverse spiritual, religious, educational and social needs of our members through worship, study, service to our community, and social activities.

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Liturgical Obligations

  |   Mar 10, 2010 12:00 AM
by Monica CellioTemple Sinai, Pittsburgh PAAlso posted on LiveJournal I was recently in a discussion about the choices that worship leaders make, and I realized that the Reform Movement's approach...

From ARZA: An Important Request for Action

  |   Mar 9, 2010 12:00 AM
by Rabbi Bob OrkandPresident of ARZA We have learned that the Knesset may vote as soon as Tuesday on legislation that would make important changes to the Law of Return,...

Galilee Diary: Definitions I

  |   Mar 9, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) Sound the great shofar for our freedom, raise the ensign to gather our exiles, and gather us from...

Standing with our sisters at the Kotel

  |   Mar 9, 2010 12:00 AM
by Shelly LindauerExecutive Director, Women of Reform Judaism In this week's Torah portion, Ki Tisa, the Israelites begin to worry that Moses will not return from Mt. Sinai, and in...

Traveler's Prayer

  |   Mar 8, 2010 12:00 AM
by Rabbi Phyllis SommerOriginally posted on Ima on (and off) the Bima I am NOT a nervous flier. While I don't get to do it all that often, I do...

Boundaries

  |   Mar 8, 2010 12:00 AM
by Larry Kaufman(Also posted at LarryKaufman.wordpress.com) In Talmud class yesterday at Beth Emet,  Rabbi Knobel was talking about a mishnah that involved the drawing of boundary lines, and I shared...

D'var Acher: Rest Stop

  |   Mar 8, 2010 12:00 AM
by Daniel Gropper(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Reform Voices of Torah) Rabbi Geller reminds us that Torah is best understood when we slow down and pay attention...

D'var Torah: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's the Fairest of Them All?

  |   Mar 8, 2010 12:00 AM
by Laura Geller(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Reform Voices of Torah) This week's double Torah portion, Vayak'heil and P'kudei, is very familiar because much in it repeats...

The Torah in Haiku: Ki Tisa

  |   Mar 5, 2010 12:00 AM
by Ed NickowTemple Chai, Long Grove, IL(Originally published in The Torah in Haiku) G-d does some hiringBetzalel, OholiabThe Mishkan builders   But the work must stopEach week to observe ShabbatIt's...

Temple Mount Sinai, just a "Make Me Feel Good Temple"

  |   Mar 4, 2010 12:00 AM
by Rabbi Larry BachTemple Mount Sinai, El Paso, TX(Originally posted on weBLOG from the Mountain) On Sunday, 2/28/2010, my guest editorial on voting and accountability appeared in the El Paso...

Earthquake in Chile

  |   Mar 2, 2010 12:00 AM
On February 28, 2010, one of the largest earthquakes in recorded history of 8.8 magnitude struck Chile, killing hundreds, displacing hundreds of thousands and causing widespread destruction of homes, schools,...

Galilee Diary: Shabbat shalom

  |   Mar 2, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) You shall destroy all the peoples that the Lord your God delivers to you, showing them no pity....

From Russia, with Love

  |   Mar 2, 2010 12:00 AM
by Larry Kaufman(Also posted at Larrykaufman's Weblog) When I was first getting involved in synagogue life, my rabbi had a cartoon pasted to the door of his study, showing a...

D'var Torah: The Holiness of Wholeness--And of Brokenness

  |   Mar 1, 2010 12:00 AM
by Laura Geller(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Reform Voices of Torah) This week's Torah portion contains one of the most dramatic events in the entire Torah, the...

One Student's Personal Pursuit of Justice

  |   Feb 26, 2010 12:00 AM
by Elliot KortMy liberal Jewish guilt was really starting to bug me. In the wake of the 2008 presidential election, I reflected on how I perceived the nation was changing....

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